Over 6.95 lakh beneficiaries have availed free hospitalisation benefits worth Rs 924 crore in the first 100 days of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), which offers Rs 5-lakh-a-year free health cover to 10.7 crore households.

“Once awareness on the scheme increases, it is anticipated that in the next few years, almost 1 crore plus families will benefit each year,” finance minister Arun Jaitley said in a Facebook post, lauding the scheme as a game changer in healthcare.

In the first 100 days, 5.29 lakh hospitalisation claims have been filed worth about Rs 684.6 crore, with average hospitalisation cost of`12,932 per patient… (Financial Express, Jan 2, 2019).